Recipe: Printing on terminal Quotes ====== user@host:~$ echo "Welcome to Bash" Welcome to Bash user@host:~$ echo Welcome to Bash Welcome to Bash user@host:~$ echo 'Welcome to Bash' Welcome to Bash user@host:~$ printf "Hello world" Hello world ! and double quoting ==================== user@host:~$ echo "Hello world !" bash: !": event not found Fix for ! ========= user@host:~$ echo 'Hello world !' Hello world ! user@host:~$ echo Hello world ! Hello world ! Escape sequence ================ user@host:~$ echo -e "1\t2\t3" 1 2 3 Scripts ======= printf.sh